Walter Pater Quotes

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best.

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

It's hard to be good at anything. If you're passionate, the chances are that you will find a job that will make you happy.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.